Northwest Syria Cash Working Group Earthquake Response Bulletin

1. MPC response overview

As of 25 May 2023, a total of 574,646 persons or 114,839 families have been reached by MPC interventions.

A total of USD 18.3 million has been disbursed by 27 implementing agencies in 249 communities across 35 sub-districts.

Only beneficiaries who have received at least USD 100/family/month have been included; excludes sector-based activities such as non-MPC cash-for-food.

575,000 people reached with MPC, USD 18.3 million disbursed, 25 May 2023

governorate	district	comm.	partners	households	beneficiaries	total_usd	%_BNF1
Aleppo	A'zaz	12	11	4,166	16,179	431,421	2.82
Aleppo	Afrin	103	18	30,485	147,293	4,294,569	25.63
Aleppo	Al Bab	3	6	4,353	21,217	643,742	3.69
Aleppo	Jarablus	2	4	856	2,596	118,795	0.45
Aleppo	Jebel Saman	18	9	9,495	54,856	1,400,582	9.55
Ar-Raqqa	Tell Abiad	2	1	263	1,344	24,876	0.23
Deir-ez-Zor	Deir-ez-Zor	1	1	8	51	701	0.01
Idleb	Ariha	3	3	400	2,051	51,350	0.36
Idleb	Harim	53	18	55,817	243,132	8,366,986	42.31
Idleb	Idleb	27	16	14,204	70,063	2,446,206	12.19
Idleb	Jisr-Ash-Shugur	27	5	4,100	15,864	544,328	2.76
Total	-	-	-	124,147	574,646	18,323,556	100.00
1As percentage of all MPC beneficiaries reached in NW Syria

158,698 beneficiary frequencies were reached in February 2023 and 219,356 were reached in March 2023. 163,444 were reached in April 2023 and 55,082 have been reached in May 2023.

This document distinguishes between beneficiaries, or unique individuals reached, and beneficiary frequencies, or the number of times people have been reached, inclusive of double counting.

1.1 Progress by date

The small number of beneficiaries reached earlier than February all pertained to the HRP, the only such beneficiaries reported so far. The CWG would like to encourage partners to report on their January achievements.

2. Map of activities

3. Geographic breakdown of beneficiaries

Coverage continues to be highest in Afrin and Harim districts, where the highest numbers of damaged houses and wounded people are located (though these areas do not necessarily have the highest proportions of damage).

Casualties and damaged houses, absolute figures and per 100,000 persons

governorate	district	wounded_dead1	wounded_dead_100k1	damaged_houses1	damaged_houses_100k1
Aleppo	A'zaz	356	57.87	276	44.86
Aleppo	Afrin	2,232	478.79	2,910	624.22
Aleppo	Al Bab	206	70.04	832	282.89
Aleppo	Jarablus	40	33.82	257	217.30
Aleppo	Jebel Saman	616	236.80	176	67.66
Idleb	Harim	8,449	507.65	3,230	194.07
Idleb	Idleb	350	48.23	946	130.37
Idleb	Jisr-Ash-Shugur	595	183.68	1,915	591.18
1Data from the Assistance Coordination Unit, Syria 20230328;

Below is a breakdown of beneficiaries based on whether they originate from camps or villages. The majority of MPC beneficiaries are from villages.

More than twice as many beneficiaries from villages as from camps

village_camps	beneficiaries	%_beneficiaries
camp	164,894	25.29
village	264,498	40.57
NA	222,492	34.13

3.1 By sub-district

The plots below show the breakdown of beneficiaries by sub-district. Caution must be taken to ensure that allocations are fair across the affected areas: there are numerous sub-districts where a very large proportion of the total population has already been reached by multi-purpose cash, in particular, Jandairis, Harim, Salqin and Sharan.

Response activities must be proportional with the magnitude and severity of earthquake damage. Overallocation deprives affected persons of the aid they are due.

The average percentage of the population reached, of all sub-districts, is 8.9%.

3.2 Comparisons with PIN and earthquake damage

The plot below shows the total population of each sub-district on the x-axis (for the moment, all persons in these areas are assumed to be affected and are included in the PIN) and the number of beneficiaries on the y-axis.

The size of each point indicates the number of dead or wounded persons there per 100,000.

The higher or lower a sub-district is above the blue line, the more disproportionate the number of beneficiaries allocated to that location are.

This should also be compared to each sub-district’s share of the earthquake damage. Of particular note, sub-districts in grey have yet to receive any MPC assistance.

The CWG has also produced an inter-sectoral dataset at community-level which should aid in the targeting of under-allocated areas.

3.3 Planned activities

Whilst it is heartening to see new sub-districts, the majority of planned allocations have been accorded to areas that have already received relatively high levels of support.

14 partners have reported planned activities

project_status	partners	beneficiaries	%_beneficiaries
Completed	26	574,646	77.24
Planned	14	164,185	22.07
Suspended	1	5,148	0.69

The sum of planned beneficiaries is 167,611. If this is the extent of all planned MPC activities, the CWG as a whole can expect to reach 111% of its target of 662,924 persons. But whilst the scale of achievements is important, it is also key to ensure that allocations are fair.

Planned beneficiaries by month

month1	beneficiaries
Apr	11,231
May	28,933
Jun	33,950
Jul	19,695
Aug	36,710
Nov	6,539
NA	30,553
1Some dates are missing or improperly encoded;

4. Cash response actors and cash disbursed

USD 18.3 million has been distributed across 264 communities and 38 sub-districts in NW Syria.

Reach and footprint of cash response actors

implementing_partner1	beneficiary_freq	districts	communities
GOAL (GOAL)	135,696	4	94
International Rescue Committee (IRC)	90,145	3	22
Shafak Organization (SO)	72,206	6	19
Ihsan for Relief and Development (IRD)	51,093	6	32
Ataa Humanitarian Relief Association (ATAA)	43,924	10	38
CBRTWG-031	30,904	6	55
Mercy-USA for Aid and Development (MUSA)	27,905	5	37
Violet Organization (VO)	27,195	3	24
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)	22,850	2	4
Uluslararasi Insani Yardimlasma Dernegi (IYD)	18,301	5	17
Mercy Without Limits (MWL)	16,460	4	10
People in Need (PIN)	12,804	5	6
World Vision International (WVI)	12,048	1	4
Bahar Organization (BO)	12,000	1	1
Solidarités International (SI)	7,058	1	5
International Humanitarian Relief (IHR)	6,654	3	9
Hand in Hand For Syria (HIHFS)	6,651	1	7
Welthungerhilfe (WHH)	4,830	4	4
Elaf for Relief and Development (ELAF)	3,300	2	2
Ghiras Al Nahda (GAN)	3,050	1	2
Bonyan Organization (BO)	2,951	1	4
The Syrian Est. for Human Care and Development (Massrat)	2,692	3	3
CBRTWG-033	1,769	3	7
Syrian Association for Relief and Development (SARD)	1,155	2	3
Al-Sham Humanitarian Foundation (AHF)	990	7	7
Social Development International (SDI)	975	2	3
Seeds Of Hope Relief and Development (SOH)	570	1	1
1Only partners who provided more than USD 100/family/month;

In the scatterplot below, each point is a single cash working group partner. The x-axis indicates the number of beneficiary frequencies reached per agency and the y-axis indicates the number of communities (admin4) reached. Mouse over each point for more details.

4.1 Cash disbursed per partner

Cash disbursed and families reached by partner

implementing_partner	total_usd	families	usd_per_fam	%_usd_total
GOAL (GOAL)	4,284,900	28,566	150.00	23.38
International Rescue Committee (IRC)	2,383,050	15,887	150.00	13.01
Ataa Humanitarian Relief Association (ATAA)	2,078,451	9,821	211.63	11.34
Shafak Organization (SO)	2,002,600	14,037	142.67	10.93
Ihsan for Relief and Development (IRD)	1,484,400	9,896	150.00	8.10
Violet Organization (VO)	862,200	5,748	150.00	4.71
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)	636,300	4,242	150.00	3.47
Mercy-USA for Aid and Development (MUSA)	561,900	5,718	98.27	3.07
CBRTWG-031	548,800	6,150	89.24	3.00
Uluslararasi Insani Yardimlasma Dernegi (IYD)	481,650	3,922	122.81	2.63
Mercy Without Limits (MWL)	438,372	3,325	131.84	2.39
People in Need (PIN)	411,450	2,743	150.00	2.25
Bahar Organization (BO)	360,000	2,400	150.00	1.96
Welthungerhilfe (WHH)	344,400	2,296	150.00	1.88
World Vision International (WVI)	301,200	2,008	150.00	1.64
Solidarités International (SI)	218,250	1,455	150.00	1.19
Hand in Hand For Syria (HIHFS)	210,079	1,400	150.06	1.15
International Humanitarian Relief (IHR)	179,250	1,195	150.00	0.98
Elaf for Relief and Development (ELAF)	160,000	600	266.67	0.87
Ghiras Al Nahda (GAN)	91,500	610	150.00	0.50
Bonyan Organization (BO)	86,471	575	150.38	0.47
The Syrian Est. for Human Care and Development (Massrat)	81,000	540	150.00	0.44
Syrian Association for Relief and Development (SARD)	30,228	231	130.86	0.16
CBRTWG-033	28,100	311	90.35	0.15
Social Development International (SDI)	25,500	170	150.00	0.14
Al-Sham Humanitarian Foundation (AHF)	20,625	165	125.00	0.11
Seeds Of Hope Relief and Development (SOH)	12,880	136	94.71	0.07

The CWG is currently working with other Clusters to consolidate all cash-based activities and will soon be able to provide more comprehensive reporting.

4.2 Currency disbursed

A total of 87.86% of cash disbursed was in USD.

Proportion of cash disbursed by currency

currency	total_usd	%_of_total
TRY	2,224,631	12.14
USD	16,098,925	87.86
Total	18,323,556	100.00

5. Annexes

5.1 Interactive reference table at sub-district level

Columns include: governorate, district, sub-district, total population, beneficiaries, total usd disbursed, wounded and dead, wounded and dead per 100k, damaged houses, damaged houses per 100k, admin3pcode

5.2 Reporting quality

This section documents issues encountered in the cleaning of 4W and FSL data and their impacts on the quality of reporting the CWG can provide. The recommendations by the CWG are included to enhance reporting quality:

1. The CWG has shifted into a new 4Ws template for biweekly reporting to better capture the earthquake response. Deadlines are set on the 10th and the 25th of each month. 11 partners reported achievements in February and 12 reported achievements in March, with 21 partners having reported in April and 18having reported in May. If no MPC activities were implemented, please inform the CWG as well.

2. For this reporting period, activities pertaining to 10,160 beneficiaries were missing their dates or had dates in unreadable formats. Please ensure that the start date and end date are entered in the format mm/dd/yyyy and select the month of reporting from the options in the dropdown menu.

3. For sex-and-age disggregations, please do not backfill these columns using calculations based on the census or the MSNA. If no disaggregated data is available to your organisation, please leave these columns blank.

4. The Cash Working Group is currently only collecting planned and implemented Multipurpose Cash achievements. Whilst the CWG welcomes additional inputs on other CVA activities, we also want to ensure that the reporting load is as low as possible for partners i.e. if an agency has implemented Cash-for-Work, this should be reported to the ERL Cluster. The CWG will work with all Clusters to develop a consolidated picture of response-wide CVA interventions.

5. Please indicate in the previously_assisted column whether or not beneficiaries have been reached before. However, beneficiaries are being reported to the Cash Working Group for this first time, even if you have reached them before, please indicate No in this column. This column is used calculate the number of unique individuals reached.